Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

Aw, well thank ya.

The day after Dave Matthews' releases his RCA solo debut, "Some Devil," the Dave Matthews Band will play a benefit show in New York's Central Park that is expected to draw upwards of 100,000 people. Full details of the Sept. 24 event will be announced Friday (Sept. 12).

America Online is sponsoring the show and is using it to hype the newest version of its software, AOL 9.0. The concert, which RCA will tape for an immediate DVD and CD release, will be held on the park's Great Lawn and will raise funds for the AOL Concert for the Schools! program, which will benefit The Fund for Public Schools of New York City and the Music Resource Center in DMB's homebase of Charlottesville, Va.

Tickets are free and can be obtained through AOL and DMB's official fan association, the Warehouse. Donations of at least $25 are requested and all seats are general admission. The band is also offering Warehouse/fan club members "preferred viewing section passes," which includes access to a backstage barbecue picnic and an exclusive viewing area on the Great Lawn

"Some Devil," which features guest appearances from regular Matthews collaborator Tim Reynolds and Phish's Trey Anastasio, will kickstart a busy season for Matthews-related releases. According to a source, a CD/DVD of the Central Park show will be released in November, followed early next year by a three-DVD/six-CD collection taped at the band's three-night September 2002 stand at the Gorge in George, Wash.

..Always leave them wanting more....

New Subthread here-
Taking Sides John Mayer Vs Dave Matthews Solo !

I say John Mayer. I also heard his single did very well in the UK, Something DMB has never done.

Dave did put a vague, Rodney King-ish statement opposing the war on his website a few months ago.

(as something of an "old" DMB fan - from the minarets era if that means anything to our googlers - and ILX irregular, one day I'll post something here. but not today.)

FYI the amount of manpower etc being used up to block down all the damn streets just in case--GASP--a nonticketholder for the Dave Matthews event tries to get near the park to--GASP--hear Dave Matthews is probably negating a similar amount of money out of the city coffers. There is absolutely no fucking reason for the amount of security going on right now. There are concerts in the park ALL THE TIME and this is the first time I've ever seen this.

I'm kind of hoping that this bullshit was the call of AOL Time Warner and NOT Matthews, because if Matthews insisted on this, he's a dick. You can't even enter the park unless you go all the way up or all the way down, because, again, god forbid a nonticketholder (to a FREE event, wtf?) hears the, uh, dulcet tones of the Dave.

To be fair, they really don't have full scale rock concerts on the Great Lawn very often at all. This isn't anything like Summer Stage, you know.

How was it a few years back when Garth Brooks played there?

There's no need to get too whiny about it. It's just a special occasion.

The reasons for that scream for a thread. Anyhoo, mix free music and a huge space with nice weather, and you'll always get mentalism. (God forbid if you were actually trying to get exercise, there!)

"Personally, I'd rather get fist-fucked by Ann Coulter than sit through a Dave Matthews concert. But that's just me."

Still, Dave suxor!

As this thread takes fer fucking ever to load, I found myself reading some of the banter toward the top - I think everyone needs to read this thread again, as it's completely hilarious. And it deserves some kind of award - A Pulitzer, A Peabody or two, maybe a Tony or the Nobel Prize for ... uh, guffaws (new category?)